Agreement between St Thomas's School and Harry Robert Birch
The agreement drawn up to appoint Harry Birch as headmaster of St Thomas's School. The document was amended on November 13th 1903 to account for out of school activities.
Birch was living in Park Street, ...
Albert Blanchard trial verdict
Blanchard's "confession" to being Jack The Ripper had seen his arrest and trial at Birmingham magistrates.This cutting from the Birmingham Gazette covers the second and final day of the trial. Blanchard ...
Alderman F.C. Clayton, Mayor of Birmingham
Francis Corder Clayton was born in Kelvedon, Essex, in 1843 and came to Birmingham as a young man to work in the chemical manufacturing industry for J. & E. Sturge in Wheeley's Lane. In the 1881 Census ...
Alderman William Cook JP
This is an abridged biography of William Cook, the full version is available on this page as a download.
Mr Cook was born on November 28th, 1834, at the village of Kingscourt, near Stroud in Gloucestershire. ...
Aldridge Road, Perry Barr
The new bridge carrying the Aldridge Road over the River Tame, Perry Barr. Postcard view of the bridge that superseded the Zig-Zag Bridge.
An Unlucky Handsworth Sportsman
A newscutting reporting the court case following a shooting accident. Henry Haseler, a jeweller of St Peter's Road, Handsworth had been out shooting at Half-way Farm and returning to the farmyard with ...
Arden Road, Perry Barr
Arden Road, off Birchfield Road, Perry Barr, from a postcard
Article on James Watt's attic
This cutting is included in the Pemberton album held by the Handsworth Historical Society. It gives useful background information on much of the equipment featured in the photographs from that album.
The ...
Ashbourne Road
Ashbourne Road lies off Shenstone and Rotton Park Road not far from the Cape Hill Brewery. The houses are not so different today. This is one of the Nightingales postcard series.
Attempted suicide by a clergyman at Perry Barr.
This article from the Gazette dated 28 December 1886 recounts the attempted suicide of the curate of Perry Barr, the Rev. R. P. Walker, when he attempted to slit his throat with a razor blade. The explanation ...
Bab-ES-SIQ, Petra by David Bomberg
The painting is owned by Birmingham Musuem and Art Gallery. David Bomberg, who had originally come out to Palestine under the auspices of the Zionist Organisation, painted many scenes at Petra in 1924. ...
Balloon ascent near Handsworth Church
This is a photograph of a watercolour belonging to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. It shows groups of people watching a balloon ascent with St Mary's Church and its Rectory in the background.
Beauty Receiving the White Rose by Joseph Southall
A pencil sketch for Joseph Southall’s largest easel painting, Beauty Receiving the White Rose from her Father, held in the collections of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The folk tale of Beauty and ...
Betholom Row
Betholom Row translates as "City of the dead". It was a passageway which bordered the Jewish burial ground on Islington Row. The Jewish community was centred on this area during the nineteenth century. ...
Bingley Hall
Bingley Hall used to stand just off Broad Street in the Symphony Hall/ Repertory Theatre area. It was regularly used for public events of all kinds, most famously perhaps for the annual cattle shows and ...
Birchfield Branch Library
This building on Birchfield Road was once known as the Perry Barr Institute. It became Birchfield Library, a satellite of Handsworth Library in September 1897, when the two front rooms began to be used, ...
Birchfield Road, Handsworth
Cottages in Birchfield Road, Handsworth, near the Crown & Cushion, December 1897. A board on the wall in the centre advertises 'Freehold land to be let'.
Birchfield Road, Perry Barr
Birchfield Road, Perry Barr, looking north at the point where the underpass would later be built. Just off the photograph to the right are Birchfield Library and the cinema.